Primary Care Excellence

State of the Art – Medicine – From the Heart

27 years Caring for Adults, Children, and home bound Elderly

From being The Maine Island Doctor to serving Harvard’s faculty and students, Dr. Donahue is now affiliated with Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Beth Israel Hospital, and Partners Healthcare

“At Harvard he brought his experience and inimitable style as a generalist doctor for a small community to an urban university. He comes in to each consultation ready for active engagement, ears and eyes wide open,giving a lot even as he takes everything in.” J.S. Chair, Department of English at Harvard University

Whether you are an executive of a corporation, a college student, or the current executive of your family home, Dr. Donahue’s limited membership practice allows you the time needed to draw out subtle clinical clues, integrate your unique biological-psychological systems, and connect your health goals with an incremental lifestyle action plan. Dr. Donahue and his clinical team empathically manage incremental change, knowing that if were easy, or obvious, you would have done it already.

Dr Donahue enjoys joining the best of conventional MD medicine with cutting edge functional medicine in search of the upstream root cause of complex illnesses, combining top specialty care and prescription medications, when needed, with the emerging science of more natural approaches. His experience as a visiting scientist at Harvard School of Public Health helps to inform this synthesis of care.

Concierge Primary Care

Your annual head to toe wellness exam, including a skin cancer screening exam, helps to benchmark health goals. Follow-up visits include addressing complex illness care, as well as 24/7 availability for more urgent health needs. Dr Donahue helps to mitigate family epigenetic health risks, keeping an eye on the medical literature for breakthroughs as well as using personalized lifestyle approaches. Learn More

Medical Membership

As a member at Personal Health MD, you gain the expertise and care at the crossroads of Conventional healthcare and functional medicine. Learn More

Integrative Nutrition

Dr. Donahue’s Story

Dr. Richard Donahue founded Personal Health MD in 2011 to combine excellence in primary medical care with the most effective and safe complementary medical care, all under one roof. Learn More

Dr Donahue is the doctor of whom everyone dreams. At Harvard he brought his experience and inimitable style as a generalist doctor for a small community to an urban university. He comes in to each consultation ready for active engagement, ears and eyes wide open, giving a lot even as he takes everything in. Was Dr Donahue ever stymied by a set of symptoms? Never! He had ready access not only to his deep professional experience, but also to new research. Dr Donahue took the time, he listened, he heard what should be understood.In sum, Dr Donahue is personally delightful, professionally accomplished, and a good, wise listener. We are very sorry indeed to see him leave his service at Harvard University. J.S. Chair, Department of English at Harvard University

Dr. Donahue became my doc within five minutes of meeting him. My father was a doc, an internist, which makes me super skeptical of MDs. I turn 65 today
and so finding a regular doctor here in Boston was becoming urgent although I'm in excellent health. Dr. Donahue and his staff were so helpful and he
was so knowledgeable about the bronchitis I came in with that I signed up as a regular patient that day. I consider myself luckier than a starving
horse who stumbled upon a trove of fresh chestnuts and alfalfa hay. I mean Dr. Donahue was the only doc on an island off the coast of Maine for nigh
on ten years. Then he spent time with Harvard Med School and Harvard student health services. And he's still relatively young. so he's had
firsthand experience with healthcare from birth to death and everything in between. Honestly, it does not get better.
John D. Boston

Dr. Donahue and the team from Personal Health MD provided extraordinary care to my Aunt during the last months of her very long life. Dr. Donahue carefully and constantly managed her complex drug regime to assure that she had maximum benefit and minimum side effect. He not only focused on her physical issues but also on the social and psychological aspects of my Aunt’s health. He and my Aunt developed a wonderful trusting relationship during his many visits to her, and she was able to remain comfortably at home and engaged in her daily life right up until she passed. As a family caregiver struggling to deal with the complexity of my Aunt’s end of life challenges, I found enormous comfort in knowing that Dr. Donahue could always be reached, that he routinely offered good counsel, and that, when necessary, he would come on short notice to assess and improve my Aunt’s condition. I recommend the entire team enthusiastically and without reservation.Elyse, CEO Boston Community Capital, Brookline

Dr. Donahue is the Marcus Wellby of this generation. He’s warm and empathetic, but very astute and insightful. He seems to ask all the right questions and really listen to the answers. He got to the heart of some of my 16-year-old daughter’s issues right away and made some excellent suggestions for treatment that have really helped her feel better all around.K.C., Chestnut Hill